HighQ Contract Job Trends

HighQ
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of HighQ products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HighQ over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within HighQ.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing HighQ 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.005% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £309 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 - -
75th Percentile £326 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

HighQ falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 20,004 13,790 18,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.73% 47.66% 42.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,584 8,509 11,310
10th Percentile £313 £280 £263
25th Percentile £413 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -1.94% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,027 604 1,116
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.07
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.34 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% +17.24% -46.92%
75th Percentile £59.38 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.90 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% +4.65% -45.67%

HighQ
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HighQ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

HighQ job vacancy trend in the UK

HighQ
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HighQ.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HighQ

HighQ
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HighQ within the UK over the 6 months to 5 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 1 £318 -
England - 1 £318 -

HighQ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Coordinator
1 1 (100.00%) Project Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Document Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Order to Cash
1 1 (100.00%) Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft